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Remembering World War I
Yarmouth Connections
Robert John Amero
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Robert John (Amirault) Amero
733648
Private
112th Battalion / 165th Battalion
October 8, 1896 (actual 1898)
Pinkney's Point, Yarmouth Co., NS
December 21, 1915
Yarmouth NS
Little River, Yarmouth, NS
19 (actual age 17)
5 feet, 7 inches
fair
brown
brown
29th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery, Yarmouth, NS
Single
Fisherman
Robert Amero Sr (Father) Little River, Yarmouth Co., NS
May 1966 (Yarmouth, NS)
Having enlisted with the 112th Battalion, he transferred to the 165th Battalion and embarked
Canada on the SS Metagama at Halifax on March 25, 1917 and disembarked in England at Liverpool on
April 4, 1917. He transferred to Company 47 Canadian Forestry Corps at Sunningdale and landed in France
on June 22, 1917.
He returned to Canada on the SS Lapland and was discharged on demobilization at Halifax on
March 18, 1919.
John Robert Amirault also served during
WWII. He died at Yarmouth in May 1966.